a free country QUOTES

1 " The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon. "

― , Things We Couldn't Say

2 " The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. "

― William Ellery Channing

3 " When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize? "

― Trevor D. Richardson , Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

4 " Since you haven’t got a name,” he said. “I guess you can pick one for yourself. Would you like to pick one for me to write down?”
She stopped rocking and looked at him. “I can do that? It’s legal and everything?”
He smiled. “It’s a free country again,” he said. “At least in theory.”
She nodded. “And when I pick a name it can be any name I want?”
He nodded.
“What’s your name?”
“Victor,” he said. “Vic, for short.”
“Okay,” she said, leaning forward and taking the pad from under his large thing hands. “How do you spell that?”
He spelled it and she wrote it down. Her handwriting was perfectly small and legible. “Can I be Victor, too?” she said, looking up from the pad.
He smirked. “It’s a boy’s name,” he said. “You’re a girl. You have to add an i and an a to the end if you want to make it a girl’s name.”
She looked down at the name she had written and added the letters i and a to the end. “Victoria,” she said, passing the notepad back to the cop.
“Hello, Victoria,” he said, smiling, taking the pad and pen back and presenting his hand for a shake. “It’s nice to meet you, officially. "

― Benjamin R. Smith , Atlas

5 " In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little complaint with much grievance. "

6 " Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. "